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Three eminent speakers Stephen Robertson, Brian Vickery and Ian Rowlands will address issues that have dominated the information retrieval agenda since the 1950s, and still present challenges and opportunities for the future. Questions from the audience will be encouraged and ample discussion time will be provided.

In his talk, Stephen gave a non-technical overview of some current concerns of core IR research, in particular on the use of different kinds of evidence in searching and ranking. He is a Fellow of Girton College, Cambridge; he won the Tony Kent Strix Award in 1998 and the Gerard Salton Award in 2000.

Three eminent speakers: Brian Vickery, Stephen Robertson and Ian Rowlands, addressed issues that have been on the information retrieval agenda from the 1950s to the era of Google. The talks were followed by a lively and stimulating discussion chaired by Stella Dextre-Clarke.